Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.The intense colourism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (French for “wild beasts”). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasized flattened forms and decorative pattern. In 1917, he relocated to a suburb of Nice on the French Riviera, and the more relaxed style of his work during the 1920s gained him critical acclaim as an upholder of the classical tradition in French paint

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La Leçon de musique (1917)

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Mademoiselle Matisse en manteau écossais (1918)

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Femme nue (1915)

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Homme assis (1900)

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Interior at Nice (1919)

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Deux Fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947)

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Femme en blanc debout devant une glace (1918-1919)

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Seated Nude in a Tan Room (1918)

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Bathers with a Turtle (1907–08)

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Nu à la fenêtre (1929)

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Odalisque au coffret rouge (1926)

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Jeune fille assise, robe jaune (1921-1922)

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The toboggan (1947)

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The lagoon (1947)

Henri Matisse

The lagoon (1947)

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The lagoon (1947)

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The knife thrower (1947)

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The cowboy (1947)

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The sword swallower (1947)

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Pierrot’s funeral (1947)

Henri Matisse

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